The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-10
MMACKIN'S MOUTH OPEN.
He DENoUNCEs o'BRIEN AND HIS
DOINGS

He Thinks His Side Should Be Given
He Analyses the American Patriot
and Freely Gives His Views on the
Questions at Stake-A Breezy Docu-
ment.
New York, June 9,-Mr John McMackin
writes to the newspapers to-day and makes
the following points: 1t is time that public
attention should be directed to the gross
inconsistencies, not to say dishonesty, of the
leaders of the Irish cause, and of their pro-
Tossing friends and admirers in America.
One of the reasons assigned by Mr.. O'Brien
for not attending the labor demonstration
on Saturday was, that his doing so would
increase the difficulties of Ireland
by ''embroilingn the Irish leaders ''in
American issues"
M'MACKIN's .CoNUNDRUMs.
'Why, then, should Mr.. O'Brien ask the
Americans to embroil themselves in the
British or the Irish issues! If it be an inn
propriety for Mr.. O'Brien to attend meet
ing in New York at which the American
landlordisln is condemned, manifestly it
must be an irnpropriety for the citizens of
America to take part, either by contrib
condemning the landlordism in Ireland
Mr.. OBrien came to Canada to denounce
Lord LanSdowne for doing what
the American landlords do every day,
without a word of censure from the men
who dined Mr. O'Brien in the Hoffman
House. Mr.. O'Brien admits that the land of
Luggacurran is the private property of
Lord Lansdowne, just as his American
friends admit that the land of New York is
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Rhinelanders and others If New York
landlords may, as they do, demand
what rent they please for the land
they hold as their own, and
evict, as they do, the tenants who refuse OF
who are too poor to pay, why should not
Lord Lansdowne do the same2 There are as
many evictions, in proportion to the popu
lation and as cruel eyictions, in America,
as in Ireland. The land laws i'll Ireland are
than the land laws in America.
TWO DIFFERENT PLANS.
In Ireland the tenant who thinks he is
over rented can go TO the courts and get the
rent reduced In America the tenant must
pay any rent the landlord chooses to fix or
go, For years the Irish cause has been sus-
tanned almost entirely by the funds supplied
by the Irish of America. All along we
were told that the money was asked for,
and was to be used III the work of abolishing
landlordism. Mr. O'Brien now tells us that
this is not what the Irish movement aims at.
He virtually says that they do not want
to abolish the landlordism, but to perpetu-
ate it, They want reduction of rent first.
and then the clearing out of the present
landlords to make way for other landlords
to take their places If this is what Ireland
has desired and still desires, then the vast
sums received by the Irish League from
America, have been obtained on false pre-
lenses. What is right in Ireland cannot be
wrong in America.
AMERICAN EvICTIoNs NOT RIGHT.
We have not heard word from Tam
many Hall or even Bishop O'Farrell in con-
demnation of the brutal evictions couple
of weeks ago in Pennsylvania. when scores
of families were pitched out of their houses
into the streets and obliged to remain there
all night, as the landlord forbade, under
penalty of eviction, any one to
give them shelter Such a thing
happening in Ireland would be in
dignantly denounced by the ODonohues,
and Graces, and Kellys, Of New York,
but happening in Free America those
'haters Of oppression have not a word of
censure or disapproval. "A Apatriotin Ireland,
an Anarchist in America seems to be the
form that applies to the position of the men
who have been shouting around O'Brienn